Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
1st Edition
By Hugh Kennedy
August 28, 2006
The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the 11th centuries; and ...
East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity: Historiographical and Historical Studies
1st Edition
By James Howard-Johnston
July 28, 2006
The last, longest and most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia (603-628) brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. Despite its evident significance, not least as the distant setting for Muhammad's prophetic mission, this last great war ...
Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance
1st Edition
By F. Edward Cranz, Nancy Struever
July 28, 2006
The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental reorientation of the categories of thought ...
Studies in Hiberno-Latin Literature
1st Edition
By Mario Esposito, Michael M. Gorman
July 28, 2006
The twenty papers by Mario Esposito (1887-1975) reprinted here date from 1909 to 1961, and complete the collection of his Hiberno-Latin studies presented in the first two volumes of his papers, published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series in 1988 and 1990. The studies exemplify Esposito's ...
Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography
1st Edition
By J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz
June 28, 2006
The essays in this second collection of articles by Professor Liebeschuetz deal with several aspects of the history of Late Antiquity. One theme is the prehistory of Late Antique ethical monotheism, which is illustrated by studies of pagan cults, Mithraism and Judaism. Several essays discuss the ...
Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century
1st Edition
By Pauline Stafford
June 28, 2006
This collection of studies by Pauline Stafford brings together a series of essays on Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England. Virtually all focus on political life, and with the highest levels of English society: with the king, the royal family and the elites, though one hitherto unpublished essay ...
Studies in Scholasticism
1st Edition
By Marcia L. Colish
June 28, 2006
Spanning thirty years, the papers brought together in this volume reflect three of Professor Colish's interests as a historian of medieval scholastic thought. The first group of studies represent investigations that flowed into, and out of, the research on Peter Lombard (d. 1161) and his ...
Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy
1st Edition
By Sebastian Brock
May 28, 2006
This fourth collection by Sebastian Brock focuses on three areas: the christology of the Church of the East, the distinctive phraseology of the invocations to the Holy Spirit in the Syriac liturgical tradition, and two important early Commentaries on the Liturgy. The inclusion of the Church of the ...
Islamic Visual Culture, 1100–1800: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume II
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
April 28, 2006
Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 is the second in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the ...
Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics
1st Edition
By Paul F. Grendler
April 28, 2006
Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovative in their approaches to schools and universities as the Renaissance. At the same time, religious and political concerns strongly influenced educational developments. This third volume of articles by Paul F. Grendler explores the close ...
Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World: The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis
1st Edition
By Francis A. Dutra
March 23, 2006
During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown. Membership in these military orders was highly prized as status symbols and because ...
Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England
1st Edition
By David M. Palliser
February 08, 2006
Professor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to ...